ID this fruit?

Slacker · Jul 17, 2018

Growing on a tree on UNC CH campus.

NCFubar · Jul 17, 2018

Might be real hard to do ... there are soooooomany fruits in the UNC campus to choose from.

Slacker · Jul 17, 2018

NCFubar said:
Might be real hard to do ... there are soooooomany fruits in the UNC campus to choose from.

Those are 6 second fruits.
As per HR...staring at said fruit for more than 6 seconds is inappropriate.

Bailey Boat · Jul 17, 2018

To early in it's development to tell for sure....

Pack72 · Jul 17, 2018

NCFubar said:
Might be real hard to do ... there are soooooomany fruits in the UNC campus to choose from.

And to complicate things further, some of the pawpaws think they are mawmaws.

NCLivingBrit · Jul 17, 2018

I love you guys.

They look a bit like the weird ornamental tamarind things we had at one apartment complex we lived at.

Culper · Jul 17, 2018

cubrock · Jul 17, 2018

Looks like a buckeye to me. The pawpaw doesn't have the whorled compound leaves shown in the pic.

Edited to add link:

http://www.carolinanature.com/trees/aesy.html

chiefjason · Jul 17, 2018

Buckeye based on those leaves.

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Stick · Jul 17, 2018

chiefjason said:
Buckeye based on those leaves.

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Yep. Fruit is way too small to be a pawpaw, leaves match buckeye perfectly.

Mightyox04 · Jul 17, 2018

I thought young paw paw also.

Gunbelt · Jul 17, 2018

I never did care for em. But I picked a bunch for an Aunt I had as a kid.

Pack72 · Jul 18, 2018

I didn't really think it was a paw-paw, but I couldn't waste the opportunity to make a fruit joke, given the location of the tree.

bondjamesbond · Jul 20, 2018

Don't eat the buckeyes.